Dessert Recipes

Peanut butter cookies with melted chocolate swirled right through the dough and pressed with a classic fork crisscross. Chewy, nutty, and streaked with chocolate in every bite.

Buttermilk pound cake with a tender, fine crumb and tangy edge from low-fat buttermilk. A lightened butter-and-margarine pound cake recipe that bakes up golden in a bundt, tube, or loaf pan.

Delicate and delicious chocolate souffle as a dessert.

A light sponge cake rolled around sugared fresh strawberries and billowy whipped cream. Looks like it came from a French patisserie, but you made it in your own kitchen.

Copycat pumpkin scones with two glazes: tender, spiced pumpkin scones finished with a plain sugar glaze and a drizzle of spiced pumpkin glaze. The fall coffee-shop favorite at home.

Peanut butter brownies made in one saucepan, no mixer needed. Brown sugar keeps them chewy, peanut butter makes them rich, and pockets of melted chocolate run throughout. Quick to stir together.

Chocolate fudge pound cake is a low-fat bundt cake using egg whites, nonfat yogurt, and cocoa powder for deep chocolate flavor without yolks or butter. Dense, fudgy, and naturally lower in saturated fat.

Rich double chocolate muffins made with melted unsweetened chocolate in the batter and loaded with semi-sweet chocolate chips. Tender, fudgy, and made with buttermilk for extra moisture.

Treat the kids this Christmas with these scrumptious snacks that will bring out the holiday spirit in your baking!

Cola sheet cake with cola and marshmallows in the batter for a moist chocolate crumb, topped with hot fudge cola icing and chopped nuts. The classic Southern church-supper sheet cake.

Smooth in texture, buttery and rich in taste. Indulging in this decadently delicious pumpkin pie is an easy thing to do.

Strawberry rhubarb pie layers fresh strawberries and rhubarb with a sugar-flour blend under a sparkling sugar-glazed double crust. The classic spring fruit duo at its sweet-tart best.

I added some pureed strawberries and a couple of drops of red food coloring to make the cake pink.

Espresso brownie bars layered with a Kahlua-spiked cream cheese topping and feathered with melted chocolate for a marbled, bakery-window finish. Rich, fudgy, and built for a coffee-lover's dessert table.

Gingerbread men cookies with deep molasses, warm ginger and cinnamon, and currant eyes. The classic Christmas cutout cookie with a soft chewy center perfect for kids' decorating projects.

Coconut angel food cake folds shredded coconut into a fat-free egg-white batter, then frosts the cooled tube cake in seven-minute orange frosting and toasted coconut.